don't leave us just yet Gate and Merc, and especially not as part of a vendetta against some silly Obamaniacs. I think 8 years of media gripping about GOP rule was more of an effect on some peoples' attitudes towards our candidates than the two recent middle-of-the-game victory pronouncements. There are just too many people who want to see something very different about government, and Obama allows that, so please empathize with their position. They don't want the same ol' government. And that's what, fairly or unfairly, Clinton represents. Clinton's previous ace became her biggest problem.

And that's why, no matter what issues you discuss, or reasoning you put forth, you're still pulling your points from a box marked "Old government" and they're fixated on the box at the other side of the room labelled "New government." When you're gone, they root around in there too, amazed by the possibilities. The important thing is: we're both dems and we got this nice room for our boxes.